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David Meyer

David N Meyer is a content editor at getAbstract and author of The 100 Best Films To Rent You've Never Heard Of, Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music, The Bee Gees: The Biography, and other books. You can find his essays on film and music at davidnmeyer.com

  • Review
    The Future of AI
    AI 2041
    AI 2041by Kai-Fu Lee The Future of AI

    Best-selling AI expert Kai-Fu Lee and speculative fiction author Chen Qiufan consider the AI of 2041 through hard-nosed analysis and illuminating tales.

  • Review
    The Mystery of Creativity
    Inspired: Understanding Creativity
    Inspired: Understanding Creativityby Matt Richtel The Mystery of Creativity

    Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist Matt Richtel probes the mysteries of human inspiration.

  • Review
    “Zennials” Explained
    The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer
    The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transferby Ken Costa “Zennials” Explained

    Banker Ken Costa highlights some fundamental differences in the “Zennial” and baby boomer financial mind-sets.

  • Review
    Laissez-faire Origins
    The Big Myth
    The Big Mythby Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway Laissez-faire Origins

    Professors Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway trace the origins of the talking points that have come to characterize laissez-faire economics.

  • Review
    An Enduring Dilemma
    The Innovator’s Dilemma
    The Innovator’s Dilemmaby Clayton M. Christensen An Enduring Dilemma

    Everything will eventually be disrupted, says business guru Clayton Christensen. Why does his seminal book show no signs of aging?

  • Review
    The Power of Self-Compassion
    Mirror Mirror
    Mirror Mirrorby Julie Nee The Power of Self-Compassion

    This actionable framework helps boost your self-love, self-affirmation and kindness to the person in the mirror.

  • Review
    Tools for Mental Peace
    Mental Immunity
    Mental Immunityby Richard Norman Tools for Mental Peace

    Richard Norman provides helpful, if familiar, ways to stay strong amid stress and boost your self-regard.

  • Review
    Intimate Retelling of History
    The Splendid and the Vile
    The Splendid and the Vileby Erik Larson Intimate Retelling of History

    Eric Larson’s intimate retelling of the Battle of Britain brings the nation’s rulers, aristocrats and ordinary citizens to vivid life.

  • Review
    Stories and Your Deceptive Brain
    The Science of Storytelling
    The Science of Storytellingby Will Storr Stories and Your Deceptive Brain

    Award-winning journalist Will Storr explains the myriad ways your brains fools you – all for your benefit – and why you so need and love…

  • Review
    An Awe-Inspiring Figure
    The Man Who Solved the Market
    The Man Who Solved the Marketby Gregory Zuckerman An Awe-Inspiring Figure

    Wall Street Journal writer Gregory Zuckerman details the life of codebreaker, polymath, early quant investor and billionaire Jim Simons.